Justice Stevens: Make 6 changes to Constitution

Mark Sherman Associated Press

Posted:
04/21/2014 04:10:47 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says in a new book that the Constitution should be changed to eliminate individuals' right to own a gun, abolish the death penalty and make it easier to limit spending on elections.

Those changes are among six that Stevens is calling for in his new book, "Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution." The book is being published Tuesday, two days after his 94th birthday.

Stevens left the court in 2010 after 35 years as a justice. His proposed amendments generally would overrule major Supreme Court decisions with which he disagrees, including ones on guns and campaign finance in which he dissented.